Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhether the critics hated it, audiences ignored it, or the network pulled the plug, hosts Mike and Morgan are there to make the best of bad TV. New episodes every Tuesday.
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EP83 - Bob Patterson
March 31, 2020 22:59 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBGet ready for some situations, and maybe even some comedy, as we drop the first episode in our "S(t)einfeld Stinkers" series! This time Jason Alexander goes from lovably enraged loser George Costanza to a third rate Tony Robbins named Bob Patterson. The ep we watched, "Naked Bob," deals with his serious confidence issues regarding his downtown region. That's right, there's lots of boner talk in this one! (more so even than usual!) With the biggest comedy hit of all time only a few years behi...
Small Reception - Streaming Recommendations
March 18, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBMike and Morgan each give you their top 5 shows to stream on Netflix and Hulu! It's a scary time for us all, let's try to make the best of it by staying inside and watching some good TV shows! We'll be back to bad tv next time, but some positivity felt right for this week. Stay safe Baddies! List of shows: GLOW - Netflix Arrested Development - Netflix The Twilight Zone - Netflix/Hulu Jeopardy - Netflix/Hulu She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Netflix The X Files.- Hulu Buffy/Angel - Hulu N...
EP82 - NightMan
March 03, 2020 12:38 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBGood golly, it's our two year podiversary!! We celebrate by finally having our hilarious and talented friend, comedian/actor/podcaster Nick Aragon (F*ck This Place podcast, @instaragon) on the show!! And what a treat of a show we had for him! (shout-out to Josh Hollis of Predict-o-Cast for the recommendation!!) In a world full of shows based on popular, well-established, interesting and iconic superhero characters, one show dared to be different. One show had the balls to reach into the dept...
EP81 - Highlander: The Raven
February 25, 2020 12:21 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThere can only be one... spinoff of a TV show... spun off from a movie... But that means there's definitely at least three... Right?? Truthfully we don't know anything about the Highlander series, and watching this brief side quest didn't help us out at all. I think it involves swords, kicking stuff, and maybe stealing diamonds? On the plus side, Morgan found The Raven so exciting that she literally lost consciousness during most of the show! There's no shortage of amusing anecdotes and tang...
EP80 - Good Reception: House, M.D.
February 04, 2020 14:12 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBPaging Dr. Reception! It’s the return of Good Reception! We take a look at the massive hit medical drama/mystery/comedy House (or House, M.D., it was unclear what the official title was). Will this House our new home, or will we be “bringing down the House??” We had never seen even a single episode of this seminal series starring the world’s grumpiest doctor, so we decided to check out the most acclaimed episode we could find after spending about 5 seconds on google, Season 1, Episode 21: Th...
EP79 - She-Wolf of London: Love and Curses
January 14, 2020 13:18 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBThings get hairy this week as we take a silver-handled stab at the mid-season transformation of 1990's She-Wolf of London, Love and Curses! That's right, after 14 episodes, this lady-werewolf show was moved to Los Angeles, retooled and even given a new name! ...And then was cancelled after 6 episodes. Our friend, and talented actor, Lucia Towers joins us for one of the most genuinely enjoyable shows we've watched yet! This is one werewolf (show) that doesn't bite! We were over the moon for i...
EP78 - Stargate: Infinity
December 31, 2019 09:31 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBIf there's one thing that kids love, it's serious, high-concept science fiction, right?! Well somebody must have thought so, because the 1994 semi-hit film, turned beloved series, Stargate, got the animated treatment in 2002! But make sure your kids are all caught up with the SG universe because this baby ain't gonna hold your hand with exposition. And character back stories? Who needs em! It's got bureaucracy. It's got villains without motives. It's got people with blue hair and face tattoo...
EP77 - Knight Rider "Silent Knight"
December 17, 2019 10:32 - 57 minutes - 53 MBMerry KITTsmas everyone!! This holiday season we watched the somewhat Christmas-y episode "Silent Knght" of the 1982 classic Knight Rider! Everyone is here: Raw Hoff, Mr. Feeny, problematic terminology, Santa with a machine gun, bank robbing clowns, jumping cars, killer corn tractors, and, who could forget, the Worst Uncle Ever! It's our first time behind the wheel of the Knight Industries Two Thousand (which is apparently what KITT stands for??), did it get our engines revving our drive us ...
EP76 - Pandora
November 28, 2019 12:03 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBHappy Thanksgiving! Sorry we’re late! Josh makes his return to the podcast to watch another one of the Worst Shows of 2019!! This time it’s the unhelpfully titled CW series, Pandora! Critics and audiences have made their opinions known, Pandora stinks! (Despite this it has been inexplicably renewed for a second season!?) Anyway it’s 3:00am on Thanksgiving morning so I’m not going to worry too much about this description since I’m pretty sure no one even reads them anyway. It’s a dumb Star Tr...
EP75 - The I-Land
November 13, 2019 02:15 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBYou're stranded on a desert island and all you can bring is this Netflix original series... I bet you still couldn't finish all seven episodes! We watched the critical bashing post The I-Land beginning our coverage of the worst TV of 2019! Seriously, this one nearly broke Morgan. I wasn't sure she would make it through the whole thing. If not for the competence of the adorable (and chin en-dimpled) Kate Bosworth, this might have been literally unwatchable. Plus we go corporate talking about...
EP74 - Magnum P.I. "The Woman on the Beach"
October 30, 2019 23:32 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBDid you know that “P.I.” stands for Paranormal Investigator? Well, that’s because it doesn’t, but ghosts are abound (or are they??) in this episode of the seminal 80s classic, Magnum P.I.!! We were both shamefully unfamiliar with the mega-hit show and thought it would be fun to close out the Halloween season with a spooky episode of a cheesy 80s staple. Did it scare us down to our skeleton bones, or bury us with boredom? One thing is for sure, we talk a lot about how attractive Tom Selleck i...
EP73 - Top 10 Treehouse of Horror Segments #AllTheHorror
October 15, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBIt's that time of year again! We're back with a new episode for the purveyors of the best Halloween Horror content on the internet, #AllTheHorror!! This year we're counting down our top ten segments from The Simpson's yearly horror anthology episodes, Treehouse of Horror! We cover all the murder and mayhem. Every laugh, gasp, and splat of this classic TV tradition thats been running for 30 years! Plus we hear from Jason and Trish of Invasion of the Remake and author Antoinette Fox on some of...
EP72 - Walker, Texas Ranger "The Children of Halloween"
October 02, 2019 02:01 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBKick or Treat, baddies!! The Halloween season is upon us again, and you know what that means! A whole month of Horror shows and Halloween specials! We start with a very spooky episode of Walker, Texas Ranger called "The Children of Halloween!" That's right, Chuck Norris straight up karate chops evil between the butt-cheeks! Plus there's plenty of references to Lethal Weapon 4 and we find out that Downtown Julie Brown knows Lucifer! Happy Halloween!!!!!! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as...
EP71 - 1600 Penn
September 17, 2019 01:06 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBWe're back!! And so is Jenna Elfman! That's right, it's an all new Elfman on the Shelf! This time she's taking her lovable quirks all the way to White House in the politically inept 2012 NBC comedy, 1600 Penn! Now the Elfster is playing second fiddle to America's favorite singing snowman, Josh Gad! The votes are in, and viewers elected... to change the channel. Plus we ruminate on what Jenna Elfman's porn name might be, Morgan ponders whether or not she can retroactively give birth to Josh ...
Back Reception: EP7 - Baywatch Nights
September 03, 2019 16:55 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBDon't call it a rerun! We celebrate 10,000 downloads with a special edition re-release of one of our favorite early episodes! Already heard it? Well, there's some all new content bookending it! We'll be back next week with a new episode but hopefully this flashback will tide you over until then. This week we watch the bay... and the skies!! It's the Baywatch spinoff turned X-Files knockoff, Baywatch Nights! And that means anything goes. Or does it? We're still not sure. Jason Diego Mederos...
EP70 - The New Adventures of He-Man
August 27, 2019 02:44 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBWe Have The Power!!! The power to watch really bad 90s cartoon reboots that is! It's everyone's favorite muscle bound sword-swinger, He-Man! But not quite like you remember him. That's right, just a few years after Masters of the Universe, in 1990, He-Man was rebooted, lamer, and tamer than ever! Remember Skeletor, the awesome, ripped skeleton-man menace? He's here too! Except, now he sucks! What a great idea!! Just take everything that was cool about the original and make it terrible! Ca...
Small Reception - "If an Urkel Falls in the Woods"
August 14, 2019 16:58 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThe world has been clamoring for another Small Reception, and you know that we never disappoint! ...Okay, so nobody actually asked for it, but we didn't have time to do full episode this week, and it's better than nothing right?? We talk about Mike's two true loves: Carly Rae Jepsen and WWE wrestling, Morgan's many new soda-based jobs, our favorite TGIF shows, magic powers, visits to TV sets, and some stories about funny kids. Mostly we just shoot the shucks and read random questions from th...
EP69 - Melrose Place (2009)
August 07, 2019 04:25 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBWe dish out the hot goss on the sexiest episode of Bad Reception yet! That's right it's episode 69 and you know what that means: obligatory innuendos and plenty of us saying, "nice." Get ready for a buttload of gasps, slaps, and stabs in the back, it's the 2009 reboot of Melrose Place.We're joined by our good friend, and fan of the show, Tara!! Morgan shows up a little late, but I promise she's on the episode! Whether or not she watched the show... well, that's a whole other story! Haha. P...
EP68 - Poochinski
July 30, 2019 10:23 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBWe're getting too old for this dogsh*t! This week we're joined by our pal Ben Hunter to watch one of the most notoriously bad TV shows of all time, the gritty crime drama turned goofy fantasy sitcom, Poochinski! Nothing can prepare you for this unbelievably silly premise that concerns grumpy cop Peter Boyle, a lovable bulldog, brutal murder and... magic?? It only took a single episode for the network to realize this was one bone that was better off buried! Plus, we spend an absurd amount o...
Small Reception - "At the Mercy of the TV Gods"
July 26, 2019 10:36 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBIn a change of pace, this week we took listener questions from Twitter and answered them live on the air! Why? Because we were three days late and didn't have enough time to do a real episode?? NO! And frankly that kind of attitude is not welcome in the Bad Reception Recording Bungalow™️. It's because we love our fans and want to know what you want us to talk about. Including why Ross from Friends sucks, what TV shows we would make if we had the chance, what shows have been banned from the p...
EP67 - Misfits of Science
July 16, 2019 11:47 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBIt's the return of The Cox! We're back with another installment of "Friends Before Friends" and it turns out that way before she was Monica Gellar, Courtney Cox was getting her telekinesis on in the super 80s (and surprisingly meta) action comedy, Misfits of Science!! This show is absolutely chock full of cheesy jokes, awesome tunez, stunnin' shades, lasers, mini-cassette tapes, Ferraris, big hair, and white high top sneakers!! Oh and it's seriously got one of the best theme songs ever! Why ...
EP66 - State of Affairs
July 09, 2019 11:32 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBDo you love political minutia and hate entertainment? Do you like Veep but wish it was devoid of humor? Have you always thought 24 should "just drop the whole action thing already!?" Oh boy, do we have a show for you! In a desperate attempt to find anything relevant to currently popular TV show, Stranger Things, we watched the 2014 David Harbour star vehicle (just kidding he's only a supporting character) State of Affairs! Can you believe a Katherine Heigl project was a huge failure? No way!...
EP65 - Red Dwarf USA
July 02, 2019 13:03 - 48 minutes - 45 MBHappy Independence... Week!? We celebrate America by taking a look at what it does best: taking something from dumb old England and making it way better!! ::guitar solo:: In 1992 NBC took a crack at remaking the cult BBC sci-fi comedy hit Red Dwarf, hoping to find the next big American sitcom. Even though it never aired, and never even got a second episode, it's pretty obvious which one is better. I say that as someone who has never seen the British version, but blindly assume it is true. ...
Small Reception - "Totally Not Filler"
June 30, 2019 20:05 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBHey all your Bad Reception superfans, this one's for you!! We were late this week and instead of just another boring old episode, we thought we'd give you about 40 minutes of us just bullshitting and trying to come up with random questions about the shows we've watched so far. It's totally not a filler episode. And I'm sure new listeners will get a kick out of hearing us recount vague details from shows we watched in the past! It's a win win! But seriously this one was just for fun because w...
EP64 - Aquaman
June 18, 2019 10:58 - 1 hour - 64 MBSomething’s fishy this week as we watch the 2006 pilot for what would have been The CW’s Aquaman! That’s right, everyone’s favorite superhero punchline, the whale whisperer himself, Aquaman, was star of his very own TV show… For one episode anyway. Also this show has A LOT to do with the Bermuda triangle. Not really sure what that's all about. Josh subs in for Morgan this week to help find out if this floundering failure belongs on the bottom of the sea. We also discuss Beach Boys geography...
EP63 - Swamp Thing (2019)
June 11, 2019 10:53 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBWe celebrate the return of Morgan(!) with a brand new show whose single episode cancellation has the internet buzzing and fans rioting, it’s the DC Universe original series, Swamp Thing! This is the first time we’ve done a show that’s still currently airing, but with all the controversy surrounding it’s ludicrously quick termination, we had to find out what all the hubbub was about! Was this tale of the classic horror hero pruned too early, or was it bogged down with a muddy production? Mor...
EP62 - Point Pleasant
June 04, 2019 13:12 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBI've heard of daddy issues, but this is ridiculous! This week we watched as the lady anti-Christ turned against her old man (aka, Satan!), in 2005's super soapy, Good vs Evil drama, Point Pleasant! It may have only lasted 8 episodes but Mike is still pining over the loss of this obscure Fox failure, co-created by former Buffy showrunner Marti Noxon. Speaking of Buffy, Chevy returns to fill in for Morgan, and The Slayer is definitely on her brain, but don't worry she still discusses Point Ple...
EP61 - Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
May 29, 2019 01:29 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBHold on to your joysticks (and internal organs!), this week we watched the television adaptation of the most notorious video game of the 90s, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm! Brent from Home Video Hustle is back to fill in for Morgan, and he brings his ridiculously detailed knowledge of all things Kombat! No character is too obscure, no back story too insignificant, Brent knows these violent ninjas, robots, demons, and more, better than most people know their loved ones! But how can a ...
EP60 - Samurai Pizza Cats
May 21, 2019 15:08 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBHoly Cats! What do you get when you mix feline cyborgs, ancient Japanese warriors, and the most delicious food on the planet?? The 1990 animated import, Samurai Pizza Cats! It’s a veritable fancy feast of puns, guns, parody, and hilarity, and almost certainly the only show to feature robot cats being launched out of a gun-shaped pizzeria! Morgan is absent again, but we’ve got a More Gooder substitute, “Crushin’ It” Chris Braaten! Plus an all new robotronic Morgan replacement, Cy-Morg! Mike ...
EP59 - Mann & Machine
May 07, 2019 12:44 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBCrime is a computer virus… She’s the cure! We watched the absolutely ridiculous, ultra-90s cyber-police procedural, Mann & Machine! From the creator of Law and Order comes the classic story of a grumpy butthole police detective who hates robots but is forced to team up with a beautiful and acrobatic android who has a pre-school education and a love of chocolate donuts! What a mismatched pair! Zany robo-antics most definitely ensue. This week Mike is joined by guest host Tiffany since Morgan...
EP58 - Harper's Island
April 30, 2019 09:22 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBPut your hockey masks on and get your chainsaws revved up, things are gonna get slasher-y this week!! We watched the 2009 single-season murder mystery, Harper’s Island! Who wouldn’t want to set their wedding in the isolated location where a violent serial killer had chopped up their friends and family only a few short years prior?! It’s show that tests the limit of how many characters can be crammed into a single plot! It’s a horror show that takes music cues right out of teen dramas. It’s a...
EP57 - Marvel's Inhumans
April 23, 2019 11:15 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBEveryone (except Morgan) is crazy for the MCU! And with Avengers: Endgame coming out this week the hype has never been more substantial! So we figured the time was right to take a look at the one thing nobody likes from Marvel’s cinematic universe, the 2017 super-flop, Inhumans! It’s that one with the giant CGI bulldog and a lady with magic hair. Remember? Fanboys be warned, we don’t actually know a whole lot about the MCU (and NOTHING about the Inhumans comics) and we spend a lot of time in...
EP56 - Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp
April 16, 2019 12:18 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBWe can’t monkey unsee this monkey doo doo! This week Morgan forced Mike to watch an absurdly dumb show with an entirely chimpanzee cast! Apparently the bizarro 1970 spy comedy, “Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp” was actually a real thing that existed and was on TV, and it is every bit as strange as it sounds. From Breakfast Spaghetti, to pretending to know about British TV shows, to "Stunt Munks" and Pizza flavored Mad Libs, this episode is more fun than a double barrel of monkeys straight to th...
EP55 - The Powers of Matthew Star
April 10, 2019 11:36 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBFrom out of this world and onto our television, we get invaded by 1982’s alien superhero drama with an identity crisis, The Powers of Matthew Star!! Or is it David Star? This is definitely the first show we’ve watched that can’t even get it’s main character’s name right. Louis Gossett Jr. shows up (with hair!) as does everyone’s favorite Friday the 13th Part II star, Amy Steel. Sparks fly, busses crash, and projectors burst into flame as we watch another pick from TV Guide’s 50 Worst TV Show...
EP54 - Good Reception: Grey's Anatomy
April 02, 2019 20:37 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBCode Lavender! Get us 100cc’s of soapy medical drama stat!! We’re back with another episode of Good Reception, but this time neither of us has ever seen the show. Somehow we’ve missed the biggest TV phenomenon of the past decade and a half, the much beloved, and oft referenced Grey’s Anatomy. We jump into the middle of season two with the show’s most ever watched episode, “It’s the End of the World.” Will we become the newest Anatom-aniacs (I think I just made that up?) or will it die on the...
EP53 - Accidentally on Purpose
March 26, 2019 21:40 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWe're back with another episode of the ever-popular "Elfman on the Shelf!" This time J-Elf finds herself in a more traditional sitcom, about an unconventional relationship! Sound familiar?? It's Knocked Up meets Dharma & Greg... meets an awful moldy old garbage biscuit covered in sewage juice! Josh and Tiffany join us for one of the most painful viewing experiences in the history of the show! Along the way Tiff confuses Jenna Elfman, Jen Kirkman, James Dean, John Wayne, Kate Moss, Kate Upto...
EP52 - V.I.P.
March 19, 2019 16:34 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBWe’ve got our sights set and hot pants on for on the campy 1998 Pamela Anderson action comedy V.I.P!! Prepare yourself for explosions, inappropriate hot dog stands, Breaking Bad stars, pixie cuts, erotic daydreams, hidden arsenals, movie stars, tax evasion, and more silicone than any dress can contain!! Hollywood Power Couple Josh and Tiff join us as we argue over celebrity sex tapes, basketball terminology, hot dog toppings, and the relevance of Bee Movie’s on-set experts. Plus sexy Brawn...
EP51 - Sonic Underground
March 12, 2019 14:16 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBWe’ve got the need for speed, and only the furry blue spiked one can get the job done! It’s our first video game adaptation and we went for the weirdest, goofiest, most gosh dark rock-n-roll-est show we could get our hands on, 1999’s Sonic Underground! Hope you’re ready for sick guitar riffs, laser blasting drum beats and, of course, fog spewing organ solos…(?) because this ain’t your daddy’s Sonic! Morgan is somehow even sicker this week, hacking her lungs out (apologies misophoniacs!), b...
EP50 - Ghost Whisperer Revisited
March 06, 2019 10:04 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBHappy Podiversary!! That’s right we’re celebrating one year of putting ourselves through awful TV shows for your entertainment! We also brought back our original guest host, Josh, and are revisiting one of the very first series we covered, Ghost Whisperer!! The fans just can’t get enough of JLH’s spooky spirit sleuthing. We chose to watch the season four episode “Stage Fright” (or as we prefer to call it “The Soap Opera is Coming to Town) for some very good, super mature reasons. As a bonus...
EP49 - 666 Park Avenue
February 26, 2019 14:18 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBIt's spooky satanic shenanigans meets high-priced Manhattan real estate, in the first show ever made for horror geeks and architecture nerds! If you're looking for thrills, chills and soul damning deals, tell the cabbie to take you to 666 Park Avenue! After concluding that the show is neither Lucifer nor Ugly Betty (but not ruling out that it may secretly be Castle Rock Season 2) Mike and Morgan dig into this slick horror drama that was sent to an early grave. Plus Morgan cries, cries, cri...
EP48 - Tremors: The Series
February 12, 2019 15:19 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBFrom the depths of television obscurity, we unearth the 2003 Syfy TV spinoff of the immensely entertaining Tremors film franchise! Is this "underground" series worthy of the good Graboid™️ name, or should we have left it buried? Lot’s of talk about Wild Things and “Kevin Bacon’s Front Jimmy” in this one, and we seem to be on constant lookout for a connection between Graboids and hemorrhoids that never really comes to fruition. Meanwhile Morgan has some tingly feelings for Michael Gross and ca...
EP47 - Sabrina: The Animated Series
February 05, 2019 18:26 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBIt's the animated prequel to the original live-action adaptation of the classic comic series that is a spinoff of a larger universe!! Before she was a teenage witch, beloved character Sabrina was a tween-age spell-caster-in-training. And also a cartoon! Will Morgan's nostalgia for TGIF color her judgement of this single season cartoon curiosity? Will Mike be charmed by a bastardized version of a character he knows pretty much nothing about? Jason Diego Mederos (Things I Hate) returns to hel...
EP46 - Imaginary Mary
January 29, 2019 18:51 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBWe kick off our new series, Elfman on the Shelf (aka Bottom Shelfman, aka The Dharma Initiative) with the 2017 Jenna Elfman sitcom bomb, Imaginary Mary! In a career chock full of duds, could this ABC family dramedy with an adorably annoying CG co-star be a diamond in the rough? …I can only imagine! Meanwhile Morgan is full of serenades this episode including her funky parody of “Angel of the Morning,” plus she throws shade at mini-golf, Jenna Elfman’s charisma, and Scientology! Mike gets re...
EP45 - The Cape
January 23, 2019 11:20 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBHoly generic superheroes! It's not a bird. It's not a plane (although it certainly is PLAIN). No it's NBC's laughably lame, costumed, crime-fighting crusader, The Cape! We finally take on the most popular genre in the world, by watching a series that almost no one even remembers! However, the real hero is Keith David, because he's always awesome. Also, Morgan educates everyone on Walrus reproductive anatomy, Mike tries to figure out what the hell a Milkshake Cake is, and everyone is calling e...
EP44 - Life with Lucy
January 16, 2019 12:26 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBLucy's definitely got some s'plaining to do! After three smash hit television series, the comedic legend sadly ended her illustrious career with this universally panned 80s sitcom, Life with Lucy. It's the classic story of a widow, her son-in-law's father, a hardware store, pineapple boxes, Jenny Lewis, and a bunch of bland randos living in a house! Also it may or may not feature a cameo by Desi Arnez, Jr. and Automan (spoiler: it doesn't). There's also some tips about farm living, Morgan g...
EP43 - Baby Bob
January 08, 2019 17:02 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBOh Baby! Mike and Morgan are crying for their mommies after watching this dirty diaper of a show! It's the sitcom everyone in 2002 was clamoring for, based on a dumb Quiznos commercial, and starring a freaking talking baby: Baby Bob. They also rattle on about Baby Bob Balaban, speculate that the Chicago Fire franchise is just an elaborate ruse, and briefly remember that Tila Tequila was a thing! Strap into your booster seats kids, it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Cut the Shit: Mike: The Twilig...
EP42 - Good Reception: Tru Calling
January 01, 2019 16:09 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBHappy New Year! We start 2019 off on a positive note with our long awaited return to Good Reception! Mike makes Morgan watch one of his favorite short-lived series, the terrific time-looper, Tru Calling! With the likes of Eliza Dushku and Zach Galifianakis, a killer premise, and epically 2003 soundtrack, how did this high-concept thriller not last? And more importantly will Morgan agree that it’s a winner, or will she stab Mike through the heart like some kind of evil vampire slayer? This e...
EP41 - Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
December 18, 2018 15:16 - 1 hour - 63 MBSo much action filled!! Bad Reception All-Stars Josh and Tiffany return, just in time for some mighty morphin’ ...alien fighting? We watched the 1994 Power Ranger’s knock-off (and lengthily titled) Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills! You’re in store for lots of singing, uncontrollable giggling, sexual innuendo, dirty words, vowel confusion and porn stores galore! Plus Josh unravels a conspiracy, Tiff nearly goes into labor, Mike invites Gillian Jacobs to be on the show and Mo...
EP40 - Woops!
December 11, 2018 15:58 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBOopsie-doodle, everyone on Earth is dead and all you got was this stupid 90s sitcom! Josh Hollis (of the fantastic Predict-O-Cast) joins us to talk about Woops!, a high-concept FOX sitcom that deals with some VERY heavy themes with the with all the delicacy of an atomic blast. TV Guide named it one of the 50 worst TV shows ever made, but is there anything to like about this ratings bomb? Join us for discussions on the durability of Volvos, Santa Claus cameos, and lacking laugh tracks. Plus we...
EP39 - Saved by the Bell: The New Class
December 04, 2018 15:30 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBSchool's in session this episode, as we visit everyone's favorite institute of higher learning, Bayside High! Unfortunately Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski are nowhere to be found, instead we get Weasel, Tommy D., and a whole slew of third-rate knock-offs (AKA "The New Class"). In other news, we're super excited to announce that we are now part of the fantastic PodFix Network!! But are we worthy of joining this elite group? If our knowledge of the original Saved by the Bell is any measure, th...